Mary Ellen Edge named new principal of Austin High School

From the FBISD website:

Mary Ellen Edge named new principal of Austin High School

At its May 24 Board Meeting, the Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees named Mary Ellen Edge as the new principal of Austin High School. Edge is an experienced educational leader and has served in public education for 20 years. She has been the Associate Principal at Clements High School since July 2006. Before serving at Clements, she was the Dean of Instruction and an assistant principal at Bush High School. She was also at Austin High School for seven years where she served as an assistant principal, a special education department head and a special education teacher. She began her educational career as a special education teacher and worked in Rice Consolidated ISD, Sealy ISD and Port Arthur ISD.

Edge received her Bachelor of Education degree from Mississippi State University and her Master of Education in Administration from Houston Baptist University. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Education at Texas A&M University and expects to graduate in the summer of 2011. Edge is a graduate of Fort Bend ISD's LEAD Principal's Academy and was part of the Academy's first cohort of aspiring administrators.

Current Austin High School Principal, Mike Leach, is retiring from Fort Bend ISD after 39 years in education with 34 of those in Fort Bend ISD. Leach has been the principal of Austin High School since it opened in 1995. In 2008-2009, Austin High School was named as one of the top high schools in the nation, state and Houston area.

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May 8, 2010 Election Results for FBISD School Board and Mud 111

Results are in for the May 8 election for FBISD school board and MUD 111.
For MUD 111, there were five candidates vying for three seats. Incumbents Matt Shepard and Louis Manuel were unseated by residents Charles Swihart and James Owen. Incumbent Rosemary Ruths held on to her position on the MUD 111 board. Manuel barely lost the election, with just three votes seperating him from James Owen. 348 people voted in the election.
Charles Swihart - 26.72% (93 votes)
Rosemary Ruths - 22.99% (80 votes)
James Owen - 18.97% (66 votes)
Louis Manuel - 18.10% (63 votes)
Matt Shepard - 13.22% (46 votes)

The MUD 111 terms are four years. No other New Territory MUD had an election as they were uncontested.

For FBISD Position 3, Jim Rice beat Clay Alumbaugh. Rice won 66% of the vote with Alumbaugh garnering 33.94%
For FBISD Position 7, Jim Babb won over Gerald Hawkins, with 63.59% of the vote vs. 36.41%.

See more details at fortbendcountygov.com